Coherence gets the window in this madcap and absolutely damned hilariousepisode. Haruto attempts to exorcise the school spirits in his neverending quest to leada normal life, but when the spirits all disappear on their own it’s up to him to get themback. We’re introduced to more spirits of the school this time, these being the sevenwonders of the pool, including the amazing man-faced fish and his friends, the man-facedsea cucumbers.

The one thing I appreciate about Haunted Junction is how, though things tend to getwrapped up at the end of an episode, there isn’t necessarily a logical flow. It could bethat random elements were thrown together by the writers, hoping they’d hit on somethingfunny. Well, in this episode it works very well. Mutsumi’s Shouta complex leads to somevery funny scenes with poor little Nino, and Kazumi’s possessions (perhaps the least funnyrunning gag in the series) are innocuous.

The whole thing threatens to derail when we find out that a rift has opened to somesort of demon world, threatening to destroy the world and…hey, wake up! Yeah, thestandard plot from any quarter-million shows and more boring Hentai than I could count onall my appendages. They didn’t mention whether or not the demons were coming…for ourwomen!, but we can assume so. Luckily, the threat is dealt with before the end of the show,so this won’t be a running theme throughout the series.

All in all, an above average episode with some brilliant laugh-out-loud moments (myparticular favorite was Haruto’s reaction to seeing the, ahem, exposed Hanako). You reallyhave to admire the show’s insistence on defusing any moment that even slightly portendstowards seriousness with something that is absolutely outre.Rating :B-